To:A. S. KISELYOV

Written:Written on October 5, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeKiselyov, Chairman of the Narrow C.P.C.

Iwrote you concerning A. P. Smirnov’s
memo[1]that I
resolutely object to any waste of potatoes on making
alcohol, and said that alcohol could and should be made of
peat.

Itnow turns out that the problem of distilling alcohol
from peat has not yet been finally solved. The method has
not been verified on an industrial scale and is economically
unclear (there is no precisely verified calculation and
no data to draw it up precisely). That is why it is still too
early to speak of the mass production of alcohol from peat.

Takeall measures to accelerate in every way the
starting of the experimental plant to make alcohol from peat—
the former Givartovsky yeast plant in Moscow.

Istrongly object to Smirnov’s proposal that we should
pay the peasants in alcohol for their potatoes. If Smirnov
insists, let him take the matter to the C.C.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]SeeV. I. Lenin,Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Edition,
Vol. 53, Document 295.—Ed.